Budget

The House Appropriations Committee released its fiscal year 2015 homeland security funding bill, which would provide money for the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year […]

When civilian federal employees come back to work after New Year’s Day, they’ll find a little more money in their first paycheck thanks to a 1 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) […]

President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 on Friday, with the final version of the bill keeping most of his overseas spending priorities in […]

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in a report released Monday estimated that over the Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan costs will be on average about 13 percent more than the service […]

The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2015 on Friday, sending the bill to the president’s desk for the 53rd year in a row. The House […]

Congress struggled Thursday to avert a government shutdown Friday, with an early afternoon vote in the House canceled as lawmakers realized they might not have enough votes to pass a […]

House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday evening on a $1.01-trillion spending bill that funds most of the government through the end of September and provides the Defense Department $490.2 billion […]

Congress has yet to finalize its fiscal year 2015 spending bill, though lawmakers expect a deal soon as a Thursday night deadline looms. After several delays in releasing the compromise […]

As the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 for the second time and sent the newest compromise version along to the Senate for consideration next […]

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a House panel on Tuesday that Congress needs to approve his department’s fiscal appropriations request for FY ’15 or risk jeopardizing homeland security. “Let […]